Studying Politics and Religion: How to Distinguish Religious Politics, Civil Religion, Political Religion, and Political Theology

The study of politics and religion is today fragmented to a degree that you can hardly refer to it as one academic field anymore. This article lists four fundamentally different approaches to the study of politics and religion: political religion; religious politics; civil religion; and finally, pol...

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Autor principal: Laustsen, Carsten B. 1970- (Author)
Tipo de documento: Recurso Electrónico Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
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Publicado em: Brill 2013
Em: Journal of religion in Europe
Ano: 2013, Volume: 6, Número: 4, Páginas: 428-463
Outras palavras-chave:B religious politics civil religion political religion political theology secularism
Acesso em linha: Volltext (Verlag)
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Resumo:The study of politics and religion is today fragmented to a degree that you can hardly refer to it as one academic field anymore. This article lists four fundamentally different approaches to the study of politics and religion: political religion; religious politics; civil religion; and finally, political theology. The article compares the four approaches on a number of significant parameters: their understanding of what religion is; their critical ambition; to which degree a preliminary distinction between politics and religion is presupposed; and most importantly, how to approach the relationship between religion and politics in an analytical, strategic sense. The ambition with this survey is to support a discussion between the four approaches with a view to reach a more complete understanding of the relationship between politics and religion in all its complexity.
ISSN:1874-8929
Obras secundárias:In: Journal of religion in Europe
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18748929-00604002